Financial Fools -- just too tempting!

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20 February 2009

As
the meeting of the world’s twenty richest economies (the G20) draws nearer,
citizens across the world are preparing to give their leaders – and their
financial elites – a piece of their mind. They could probably do with it.

The
biggest event is set to be the ‘Put People First’ march through central London
(setting out from the Victoria Embankment at 11am) on Saturday 28 March http://www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk/

But
there will be numerous other activities at and around this period. The meeting
of the G20 is scheduled for 2 April – helpfully close to April Fools Day. Many
countries around the world celebrate this day is a similar way – so the
temptation of launching various ‘Financial
Fools’ actions is proving too hard to resist. http://www.financialfoolsday.com/

If
you belong to a union, a civil society group or an NGO, your organization may also
want to sign an international ‘Put Finance in Its Place’ petition which has come
out of the 2009 World Social Forum gathering in Belem.
It can be directly signed at www.choike.org/gcrisis
and is now available in English, Spanish and French, German, Italian and
Portuguese

New Internationalist too is ‘putting
people first’ in our next issue of the magazine. We are part of the protest –
but are also proposing ways to build a fairer, greener, more just economy. For,
in the current crisis, we see not only collapse and hardship but also the
prospect of an ‘age of possibility’. Join us at the on 28 March. And look out
for the April issue of New Internationalist, out soon.

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Vanessa Baird lived and worked as a journalist in Peru during the tumultuous mid-1980s, and she maintains a passionate interest in South America. She joined New Internationalist as a co-editor in 1986 and since then has written on everything from...